THE ACANDQ.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 634, 13 June 1876, Page 3

THE A C AND Q.

Sn, — With yours and Uio weather's per- - mission, T propose to have a quid eh vt with your own Oumbvi.lgo Gonespondent "who has dubbod himself cLwnpio:i of the AG, when they require no champion. Ho iioju-ios me of doing things unmanly under (he non de plume of Q, and wliildt con eeting me and using hard words sholtt'K? himself as own Correspondent. If lie proaehes let him practice what he pivaches. 110 .says that soldiers aud constables arc :\ )t expected I o work; no .7 I and many other tix-piyers do expect it, (happy is the ir..iu who expects nothing) tfiid prefer it to cnfoicod idleness, I neither Cj.ii nor wiih tocisfc theldist refloction on the A. G, liv*; I ii)ust say there might have been tpeiter results from fco\asta power of 1 il>ou", had tliafc labour been directed with lioro System. The v.uious schemes of the (< Aernmcnt, such as borrowod money to carry on the public works and emigration — the peace policy of St Donald McLe.m — ctli s!io\v tho studj of great minds, but iho pvu'itaolo employ meut of tho A. G in tinvo of p-^aco has, in n groat measme l)H>:i overlooked. The organic ition and the me.'i arc as goo 1 as could be debited, ]>'it the master mind lias been wanting ■which nlj;ht have di rooted their labour ousTine useful woik, that tho men could ha\ c taken pride to accomplish. Tins would have bocn better than fiddling about d )i'ig the work of road-baards, and whea done to rob them of the credit. It is to l)f» hoped some/scheme may be devised to employ them profitably. I also think it wou'H bo as satisfactory if ' meFit' received n little more pay than a recruit who is jusfc leirning his goo=io-sfcep. — I am, &c, Q. Tamohara, Juno 10th, 1876.